Children can make these fire trucks to pretend to ride in or to use as a toy box. If you like, you can cut out the bottom of the box (before making the craft) and the children can enter the box, carry it, and walk around pretending to be a fire fighter.

This is a messy craft. Work on newspaper and wear old clothes! Each fire truck takes one cardboard box and four paper plates.

Supplies:

A cardboard box

Four paper plates

Red and black paint

3 paint brushes

Black, white, blue, and orange construction paper

Scissors

Glue

Paint a cardboard box red and let it dry.

Paint four paper plates black and let them dry.

Cut two headlights and fenders from white construction paper and glue them to one end of the truck.

Cut a windshield and windows from light blue construction paper and glue them to one end of the truck.

Glue the wheels to your truck.

Cut two ladders from orange or brown construction paper and cut two hoses from black construction paper. Cut white hub caps. Glue all of these to the sides of your truck.